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Show MORE PICTURES 4 COMING TO ART GALLERY Mr. and Mrs. A. Merlin Steed Bringing 20 More Fine Paintings Here, Nov. 6 Springville's art benefactors, Mr. and Mrs. A. Merlin Steed, are returning to Springville on Saturday, Satur-day, November 6. bringing with them from their Glendale, Calif., home 20 more paintings to add to those already iven to the Art Gallery. This gracious couple will be at the Gallery on Sunday, Nov. 7, from 1 p. m. to 9 p. m., and would like to meet and talk to the people of Springville, and a special invitation invi-tation is given townspeople who would like to meet Mr. and Mrs. Steed to be at the Gallery at this time. Included in the fine paintings which the Steeds are bringing are the works of the famous aretists, Antone Mauve, Adolphe Monticelli and Leopold Seiffert. There are very few paintings by Mauve in the United States, this well known' artist being among foremost fore-most Dutch painters. The works of Monticelli, famous 19th century French artist, were recently featured in an exhibit at the Vose Gallery in Boston, Mass., and it is rare indeed that his pictures pic-tures find a place in any but the larger city exhibitions. Mr. and Mrs. Steed ,are also bringing a Gainsborough and a Winslow Homerp icture, and all will surely find a welcome place in the Springville Galleries. The position which the Springville Spring-ville art collection is gaining in the world of art is seen in a letter received re-ceived this week by Mrs. Mae Huntington from Robert Vose of the Vose Galleries in Boston. The letter acknowledging receipt of (Continued on page 2) MORE PICTURES (Continued from Page One) clippings on the recent Steed art gift, states in part: "You certainly have had a magnificent mag-nificent gift, and I beg to offer my heartiest congratulations upon such a gift from Mr. and Mrs. Steed. That makes you easily Utah's leading art center, does it not ? Have you a building to house such a collection in addition to your own extensive collection ? "Naturally we are very curious as to the quality of the rare paintings: paint-ings: Gainsborough, Greuze, Dau-bigny, Dau-bigny, Colman, Whistler, Monti-celli. Monti-celli. Monticelli is my favorite artist, and we have long been known as the Monticelli dealers, as father was before us. On my fiftieth anniversary we showed thirty Monticellis, a glorious group. A French art dealer from Marseilles (the artist's home wwiii mm me ne naa never seen, even in France, such an important and splendid collection of Monticellis. Monti-cellis. Monticelli's early pictures are superb. His late ones, after he became an absinthe sot, are worthless. It is a pity they were not all destroyed. "I have known many of the artists art-ists on your new list, including the following: Chase, Dougherty, Keith, Lauritz, Groll, Wendt, Yens, Brandriff, Borg, Braun, . Coburn (an old chum of mine), Fechin, Wierzorick, and many others. "I spent six weeks a year for ten years in the 20's with a splendid splen-did stock of over one hundred pictures, pic-tures, at the Hotel Biltmore, Los Angeles, where I knew most of the California artists. I visited old William Keith in his studio in Frisco Fris-co in June 1905 and bought a number num-ber of pictures from him. All his pictures in his studio were destroyed de-stroyed a year later by the earthquake earth-quake and fire. "Now you will have to hustle for a donor for a new building; then for an endowment. Your list is now one-sided with California and other contemporary artists. You should seek a foundation of work by our fine earlier men of the Hudson River School Cole. Doughty. Church and their leaders Inness, Blakelock and Martin. You see I am visualizing you among the country's important museums. mu-seums. "Again congratulations! "Sincerely yours, "ROBERT C. VOSE." |